Empower Oversight president Tristan Leavitt made the following statement after Chairman James Comer announced an investigation into the Drug Enforcement Administration’s walking of fentanyl and the policy that allowed it. Empower Oversight represents the whistleblower, DEA Special Agent David Howell, who first brought this policy to light. “The true cost of the DEA’s fentanyl walking …
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Two IRS agents who came forward last year with bombshell allegations of misconduct in the long-running Hunter Biden tax case are now suing Biden’s lead attorney for $20 million for allegedly defaming them with false statements to the media. IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler filed a lawsuit against high-profile defense lawyer Abbe Lowell in Washington, …
An FBI whistleblower is alleging that the bureau improperly suspended security clearance for agents with “conservative views.” Fox News obtained a complaint sent last week to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and DOJ Inspector General from a whistleblower – a supervisor and a registered Democrat – alleging that the “FBI’s Security Division improperly suspended or revoked employees’ …
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Empower Oversight is pressing the Justice Department Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility to investigate retaliation against an FBI unit chief and program manager after she made protected disclosures to her chain of command. Monica Shillingburg, a program manager and unit chief at the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System …
A Department of Veterans Affairs office that investigates whistleblower retaliation cases says VA leadership is acting on more of its recommendations for disciplinary action. Members of the House VA Committee, however, are concerned VA’s Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection (OAWP) doesn’t have independence from the rest of the department to carry out its work, …